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January 1, 1983 is considered the official birthday of the Internet. Before this, the
computer networks did not have a standard way to communicate with each other. A new
communications protocol was established named Transmission Control Protocol/Internet
Protocol (TCP/IP). The TCP/IP allows computers connected to different networks to
communicate with each other.
Prime (Ver. 2.2)-VI The World Wide Web (www) is a large information system where you can surf and get
World Wide Web
information. It consists of several public and private websites which may be interlinked
and accessible over the Internet worldwide. www is also known as Web. Many people
believe that the World Wide Web and the Internet are the same thing, but this is not
correct. In fact, these are two different things. The Web is a service (a system for
accessing information) that is supported by the Internet, a system of interconnected
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networks.
Information on the Web is stored in the form of Web pages. A Web page is a hypertext (
a text that carries additional information in it) document. A collection of related web pages
is called a website. Websites are housed on Web servers. A Web server is an Internet
host computer that often stores thousands of individual Web pages. Copying a Web page
onto a server is called publishing the Web page. This process is also called as posting or
uploading.
Fun The World Wide Web (www) or Web was created in 1989 at the European
Fact! Particle Physics Laboratory in Geneva, Switzerland, as a method for
incorporating footnotes, figures, and cross-references into online
documents.
How the Web Works?
Web documents can be linked together because they are created in a format known as
hypertext. Hypertext system provides an easy way to manage large collections of data,
which can include text files, pictures, sounds, movies and more. To support hypertext
documents, the Web uses a special protocol, called the Hypertext Transfer Protocol
(HTTP). The language that is used to create webpages allows a document’s author to embed
hypertext links, also called hyperlinks or just links in the document. HTTP and hypertext
links are the foundations of the World Wide Web.

